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The five living former presidents put aside politics and appeared together for the first time since 2013 at a concert on Saturday to raise money for victims of devastating hurricanes in Texas, Florida, Louisiana, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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Like mold appearing on the walls of a flooded house, every catastrophic weather event these days seems to be followed by an appearance from Michael Brown. Brown, the incompetent head of FEMA when our papier mâché floodwalls fell apart, seems to leap at the chance to critique other folks' responses to emergencies. He's like Shaquille O'Neal coaching Steph Curry on...
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There are exceptions to just about every rule, but one of the most reliable rules in politics is this: Black folks don't vote for Republicans. Everybody knows this: Democrats running for office, Republicans running for office. It may be the closest thing to a truism as exists in politics, and in a country where the share of white voters...
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The Obama administration is running out of time and options to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba, so officials are scrambling to release as many prisoners as possible and considering novel legal strategies that include allowing some men to strike plea deals by video-teleconference and sending others to foreign countries to be prosecuted.
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Edwards and Louisiana transportation Secretary Shawn Wilson requested $100 million to do some work on Interstate 10 between Baton Rouge and Lafayette. If they get the federal funding, it would free state money allocated for the project to be used for other things.
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Just one day after Gov. John Bel Edwards signed an executive order to grant thousands of more Louisiana residents access to Medicaid, he was at the Baton Rouge airport greeting President Barack Obama, the man who made Medicaid expansion a possibility. Obama arrived in Baton Rouge Wednesday night (Jan. 13) ahead of a public town hall meeting he has scheduled...
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The White House urged allies on Monday to do more in the campaign against the Islamic State, while President Barack Obama faced pressure in return to show the U.S.-led coalition will intensify efforts in response to the Paris attacks, even without a major shift in strategy.
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On March 2, the story broke that Hillary Clinton had possibly violated email regulations while secretary of state. You could almost hear the collective gasp in Washington: Oh, no, here we go again. But then the next evening, Clinton was feted at the EMILY'S List 30th Anniversary Gala dinner as though nothing had happened. Only the trumpets were missing...
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Lafourche Parish has a simple but essential motto: "Feeding and fueling America." It is, after all, something our state does well. Not only do Louisiana farmers annually produce first-rate cane sugar, but our anglers also haul in some of the best wild-caught seafood in the world. Most importantly, our ports handle approximately one-quarter of our nation's oil and gas....
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Kerry said in an interview broadcast before he arrived in Switzerland for talks with Iran's foreign minister that Netanyahu was welcome to speak in the U.S. and that the administration did not want the event "turned into some great political football."
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There's a familiar criticism of President Barack Obama on the right: "He's not a real American," we're told. "He's not like us," we're told. "He didn't grow up the way we did," we're told. The latest example of this came from Rudy Giuliani last week, when he proclaimed that the president "doesn't love America." Predictably, and with typical glibness, Gov....
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When Bobby Jindal stands in front of the White House and lambastes President Barack Obama's leadership -- as he did Monday and last year when Republican governors met in Washington -- his political handlers must think it makes him look like a statesman. From here, it just looks desperate -- desperate to get some national attention for his anemic presidential...
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Millions of immigrants benefiting from President Barack Obama's executive actions could get a windfall from the IRS, a reversal of fortune after years of paying taxes to help fund government programs they were banned from receiving.
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